Internet traffic articles

Netflix recently pulled the plug on its last remaining datacenter, the culmination of seven years of diligent work to move its business to the cloud. Now the company's entire operation runs through Amazon Web Services (AWS), affording the streaming video…

iTunes had a profound impact on the music industry more than a decade ago, demonstrating that people are indeed willing to shy away from piracy when presented with an affordable and easy-to-use solution. That same trend is repeating itself once…

Last week, Swedish police raided a data center used to host The Pirate Bay, shutting down the popular torrent website in the process. Although the website hasn't made a comeback as yet, data obtained by TorrentFreak shows that the raid…

Canadian broadband management company Sandvine has released its bi-annual Global Internet Phenomena Report. It’s typically used by service providers, regulatory agencies, media outlets, financial analysts and research institutions to gauge all sorts of metrics but as TorrentFreak points out, another…

Last summer, Yahoo managed to generate more web traffic than Google for the first time in two years. Many likely thought it was a fluke but as it turns out, that’s not the case at all. According to comScore, Yahoo…

Apple’s iOS 7 became available for download last week just a couple of days before the iPhone 5S and 5C hit the streets. As has become the case with major revisions from Apple, the influx of traffic pinging Cupertino’s servers…

The National Security Agency has the capacity to reach roughly 75 percent of all US Internet traffic and while we’ve been told this is all done to target terrorists and the like, the agency sometimes retains the written content of…

Recent data from analytics firm Deepfield has Google serving up a massive 25% of all North American internet traffic. While it isn't surprising Google sits atop this list, the growth it has accumulated over the past few years is. Up substantially from…

Ringing in the new year, Reddit took to its blog to share the site's top ten posts of 2012. Additionally, Reddit also shared some of its rather impressive vitals, not the least of which are a healthy 37 billion page…

According to Sandvine, American monthly data use over fixed-line infrastructure has more than doubled this year. U.S. households averaged 23GB per month in 2011, but saw that number increase to 51GB in 2012. That's an increase of more than 120…